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subject	book bibliographic info
continence	Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 7, 23, 63, 64, 66, 75, 76, 77, 78, 88, 93, 94, 96, 180 Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece (2015), Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent : New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 214, 215 Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014), Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity, 259 Williams (2009), Williams, The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I: (Sects 1-46), 49, 84, 132, 192, 211, 377 van 't Westeinde (2021), Roman Nobilitas in Jerome's Letters: Roman Values and Christian Asceticism for Socialites, 82, 157, 170, 174, 175, 179, 180, 195, 202 Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová (2016), Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria , 304, 332
continence, continentia,	Nisula (2012), Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence, 40, 43, 46, 53, 182, 183, 185, 186, 222, 223, 283, 286, 296, 298, 303, 304, 307
continence, enkrateia	Lieu (2004), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, 203, 206, 209
continence, sex/sexuality, bede on	Ayres Champion and Crawford (2023), The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions. 737
continence, sex/sexuality, castration as means of sexual	Ayres Champion and Crawford (2023), The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions. 52
continence, within marriage	Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová (2016), Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria , 332, 333
continent	Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 314, 336, 339
continent, asia	Bowie (2023), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Volume 2: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels. 300, 302, 305, 353 Hallmannsecker (2022), Roman Ionia: Constructions of Cultural Identity in Western Asia Minor, 45, 46, 47
continent, asia, name of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 71, 74, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220
continents	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 6, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149
continents, theory of	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 19, 92

List of validated texts:

8 validated results for "continence"

1. Homer, Iliad, 14.321 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Asia, name of continent • continents • continents , theory of

Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 180; Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 140; Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 92

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14.321 οὐδʼ ὅτε Φοίνικος κούρης τηλεκλειτοῖο,'' None

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14.321 who bare Perseus, pre-eminent above all warriors; nor of the daughter of far-famed Phoenix, that bare me Minos and godlike Rhadamanthys; nor of Semele, nor of Alcmene in Thebes, and she brought forth Heracles, her son stout of heart, '' None

2. New Testament, 1 John, 5.17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • continence • sex/sexuality, Bede on continence

Found in books: Ayres Champion and Crawford (2023), The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions. 737; Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová (2016), Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria , 304

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5.17 πᾶσα ἀδικία ἁμαρτία ἐστίν, καὶ ἔστιν ἁμαρτία οὐ πρὸς θάνατον.'' None

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5.17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death. '' None

3. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 7.1, 7.5, 7.8-7.9, 7.14, 7.17, 7.33, 9.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Continence • continence • continence (enkrateia) • marriage, continence within

Found in books: Lieu (2004), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, 206; Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 75, 96, 180; Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece (2015), Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent : New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 214; van 't Westeinde (2021), Roman Nobilitas in Jerome's Letters: Roman Values and Christian Asceticism for Socialites, 170, 179; Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová (2016), Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria , 332, 333

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7.1 Περὶ δὲ ὧν ἐγράψατε, καλὸν ἀνθρώπῳ γυναικὸς μὴ ἅπτεσθαι· ^7.5 μὴ ἀποστερεῖτε ἀλλήλους, εἰ μήτι ἂν ἐκ συμφώνου πρὸς καιρὸν ἵνα σχολάσητε τῇ προσευχῇ καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἦτε, ἵνα μὴ πειράζῃ ὑμᾶς ὁ Σατανᾶς διὰ τὴν ἀκρασίαν ὑμῶν. ^7.8 Λέγω δὲ τοῖς ἀγάμοις καὶ ταῖς χήραις, καλὸν αὐτοῖς ἐὰν μείνωσιν ὡς κἀγώ· ^7.9 εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἐγκρατεύονται, γαμησάτωσαν, κρεῖττον γάρ ἐστιν γαμεῖν ἢ πυροῦσθαι. ^7.14 ἡγίασται γὰρ ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ἄπιστος ἐν τῇ γυναικί, καὶ ἡγίασται ἡ γυνὴ ἡ ἄπιστος ἐν τῷ ἀδελφῷ· ἐπεὶ ἄρα τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν ἀκάθαρτά ἐστιν, νῦν δὲ ἅγιά ἐστιν. ^7.17 Εἰ μὴ ἑκάστῳ ὡς μεμέρικεν ὁ κύριος, ἕκαστον ὡς κέκληκεν ὁ θεός, οὕτως περιπατείτω· καὶ οὕτως ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις πάσαις διατάσσομαι. ^7.33 ὁ δὲ γαμήσας μεριμνᾷ τὰ τοῦ κόσμου, πῶς ἀρέσῃ τῇ γυναικί, καὶ μεμέρισται. καὶ ἡ γυνὴ ἡ ἄγαμος καὶ ἡ παρθένος μεριμνᾷ τὰ τοῦ κυρίου, ^9.5 μὴ οὐκ ἔχομεν ἐξουσίαν ἀδελφὴν γυναῖκα περιάγειν, ὡς καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ἀπόστολοι καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ Κηφᾶς;' ' None

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7.1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it isgood for a man not to touch a woman.' "^7.5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for aseason, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may betogether again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack ofself-control." ^7.8 But I sayto the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain evenas I am.' "^7.9 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. Forit's better to marry than to burn." ^7.14 For theunbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wifeis sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean,but now are they holy. ^7.17 Only, as the Lord hasdistributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So Icommand in all the assemblies. ^7.33 but he who is married isconcerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. ^9.5 Have we noright to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of theapostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?' ' None

4. New Testament, James, 2.23 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Continence • celibacy, celibate

Found in books: Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 392; Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 77

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2.23 Ἐπίστευσεν δὲ Ἀβραὰμ τῷ θεῷ καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην, καὶ φίλος θεοῦ ἐκλήθη.'' None

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2.23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God. '' None

5. New Testament, Romans, 7.18 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Continence • continence • marriage, continence within

Found in books: Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 93; Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová (2016), Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria , 332

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7.18 οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ οἰκεῖ ἐν ἐμοί, τοῦτʼ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου, ἀγαθόν· τὸ γὰρ θέλειν παράκειταί μοι, τὸ δὲ κατεργάζεσθαι τὸ καλὸν οὔ·'' None

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7.18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. "" None

6. New Testament, Matthew, 19.12 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Continence • celibacy, celibate

Found in books: Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 403; Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 63, 66

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19.12 εἰσὶν γὰρ εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς ἐγεννήθησαν οὕτως, καὶ εἰσὶν εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες εὐνουχίσθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ εἰσὶν εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες εὐνούχισαν ἑαυτοὺς διὰ τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. ὁ δυνάμενος χωρεῖν χωρείτω.'' None

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19.12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother\'s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven\'s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."'' None

7. None, None, nan (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • continence • sex/sexuality, Bede on continence

Found in books: Ayres Champion and Crawford (2023), The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions. 737; van 't Westeinde (2021), Roman Nobilitas in Jerome's Letters: Roman Values and Christian Asceticism for Socialites, 170

8. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 4.3.7
Tagged with subjects: • Continentia • continentia

Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 71; Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 355

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4.3.7 One might easily conjecture that Q. Tubero, surnamed Catus, was the disciple of Curius and Fabricius. When he was consul, the Aetolians sent him a large gift of silver plate, not only of a very great weight, but also most exquisitely made; because their ambassadors, whom they had formerly sent to congratulate him, upon their return had related how they saw him eating only on earthenware dishes. He immediately told them to take their things away, warning them that they should not think that continence needed the same help as poverty. How well did he prefer his own domestic poverty rather than the Aetolian splendour; if only the succeeding ages would have followed his example! But now to such a height of luxury have we grown, that slaves refuse to make use of that houseware, which previously a consul did not blush to use.'' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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